/lit/ - Literature

> not Cambridge
Explains the shit books on the shelf lmao

>twitter trannies seething uncontrollably
makes me smile.

you're such a faggot
is that your only talking point?
I bet you're insufferable in real life

>>15279296
>the bell curve

That isn't your bookshelf but in any case you only read crap. Political science is bad enough, but this isn't even political science—it's pop-pundit political history bottom of the barrel scratch paper that isn't worth the time it would take to read it.

>>15279312
based and bellcurved

That book on Midway is pretty good

>>15279318
uhh lefty? how could you talk bad about the strange death of europe? its the best book on the market today! really opened my eyes! so what if its just statistics thrown around to falsely justify a man's beliefs?? retard faggot tranny onions cuck!

>>15279296
How does it feel bring people home who barely know what germ theory is let along most of the books on your shelf.
I bet you hide the Tony Blair book, I fucking would.

>>15279296
The owner of this bookshelf is in the UK cabinet and singlehandedly ruined the UK education system

No wonder this country is turning to shite

>>15279296
I also bet you dont have a single banned book on that shelf.
David Duke? Arkos library, Mein Kampf.
Also no greek or latin books. No Great Books. Not even Meiklejohn?

>>15279369
>pic related

>>15279356
>statistics
>falsely justify
You better have a really good explanation for what you mean.

>>15279296
Nice edition of Bell Curve. But you dont have Imperium or Siege on your Shelf. Not even Technological Society?

>>15279296
Boring . Proabably a boring person to talk to as well

>>15279378
Yea but he said mean things about the Irish during the troubles so he based

>>15279296
Anon, stop holding out on me! Where is your copy of Oswald Mosley, we both know he was the only politician that was worth anything in the last 1000 years.

Ofc people here are stupid enough to fall for that. I could've pointed out that it's the obvious troll with the first reply. But I wanted to see if you people would reply seriously and you sure did. This board sucks.

>>15279296
stop goveposting

>>15279415
>I was only pretending to be retarded
How old are you btw? This is important if I am to rate you.

>>15279296
All of the biographies are actually books on goetia with the dust jackets swapped.

>>15279318
this
>>15277007

>>15280168

that's only one side of the story, though--pretty much the position outlined by montaigne. the other is the view of history not as a collection of linear, spontaneously-generated but interrelated points of randomness but as something as a singular totality, a kairos. if you see history in this manner, then political lessons can be imparted without the theory--in fact, the theory is so much illusion that gets in the way of the real "historical arts". hence why machiavelli can point to aspects of borgia's career as events/principles to replicate or emulate, etc.
it fundamentally comes down to the form of history you want to believe in. one man says: nothing new under the sun. another man: novelty enters the world daily. both are correct.

the way i personally see it: the aim of theory is to produce a certain type of knowledge, to invite contemplation; the aim of these collected memoirs is to produce a certain type of attitude, to sanction activity.

either way, gove has a shallow collection viz. politics and ought to be judged accordingly

>>15280305
>rapture
Post library, want to see your politics collection

>>15279296
>Kissinger
based
>Bell Curve
>Ayn Rand
cringe